2025 Heavyweight Rowing Roster
Neill, Connor
Connor Neill
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
- High School:
- St. Joe's Prep
Bio
Awards:
IRCA Honorable Mention All-America (2025)
IRA 1V Bronze Medal (2023)
Eastern Sprints 1V Silver Medal (2023, 2024)
Eastern Sprints 1V Bronze Medal (2025)
Henley Royal Regatta Ladies' Plate Champion (2024)
2025: Coxed the 1V in every race … helped the 1V win bronze at Eastern Sprints … part of the 1V that finished fourth in the Grand Final at IRAs … helped the Tigers earn a Lake Carnegie best time and win the Content Cup against No. 4 Brown … led Princeton to a Childs Cup win against No. 10 Penn and No. 16 Columbia … contributed to the Tigers’ victory over No. 15 Navy … part of a boat that opened the season with wins over No. 16 Georgetown, No. 18 La Salle and No. 24 Temple
2024: Coxed the 1V that had its first undefeated regular season since 2006 … Helped the 1V to victories over No. 17 Drexel, No. 18 Georgetown, No. 23 Temple, No. 17 Navy for the Navy-Princeton Cup, No. 9 Penn/No. 16 Columbia for the Childs Cup, No. 1 Harvard for the Compton Cup, No. 5 Yale/No. 14 Cornell for the Carnegie Cup and No. 6 Brown for the Content Cup … The victory over No. 1 Harvard was only the fourth time since the Compton Cup started in 1933 that Princeton has won consecutive races against Harvard (1933-36, 1956-57, 2015-16, 2023-24) … It was the first time in program history that the 1V and 2V went unbeaten in the regular season … 1V won silver at Eastern Sprints, helping the team to the Rowe Cup for the first time since 2016 … Paced the 1V to fourth in the IRA National Championship Grand Final, pushing the Tigers to second in the Ten Eyck standings, the team’s highest mark since 2016 ... Rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta, winning the Ladies' Plate crown.
2023: Coxed the 1V that won the Navy-Princeton Cup (No. 15 Navy), earned the Childs Cup at No. 14 Penn/No. 19 Columbia, secured the Compton Cup over No. 6 Harvard and corralled the Content Cup over No. 10 Brown … In the postseason, the 1V earned a silver medal at Eastern Sprints for the first time since 2016 and picked up a bronze medal at the IRAs for the first time since 2016.
2022: Was the coxswain at the 1V, 2V and 3V … Helped the 3V vs. Georgetown, Drexel, Temple and Navy … Coxed the 2V that was fifth at Easterns and sixth at IRA National Championships.
Before Princeton:
St. Joe’s Prep: Team won the Philadelphia City title three times and the Catholic League Championship twice … Boat also took home the Stotesbury Cup Regatta twice and earned crowns at the Youth and SRAA National Championships … First Honors every year … National Honor Society… National Society of High School Scholars.
Personal: Son of Monica and Brian Neill.
IRCA Honorable Mention All-America (2025)
IRA 1V Bronze Medal (2023)
Eastern Sprints 1V Silver Medal (2023, 2024)
Eastern Sprints 1V Bronze Medal (2025)
Henley Royal Regatta Ladies' Plate Champion (2024)
2025: Coxed the 1V in every race … helped the 1V win bronze at Eastern Sprints … part of the 1V that finished fourth in the Grand Final at IRAs … helped the Tigers earn a Lake Carnegie best time and win the Content Cup against No. 4 Brown … led Princeton to a Childs Cup win against No. 10 Penn and No. 16 Columbia … contributed to the Tigers’ victory over No. 15 Navy … part of a boat that opened the season with wins over No. 16 Georgetown, No. 18 La Salle and No. 24 Temple
2024: Coxed the 1V that had its first undefeated regular season since 2006 … Helped the 1V to victories over No. 17 Drexel, No. 18 Georgetown, No. 23 Temple, No. 17 Navy for the Navy-Princeton Cup, No. 9 Penn/No. 16 Columbia for the Childs Cup, No. 1 Harvard for the Compton Cup, No. 5 Yale/No. 14 Cornell for the Carnegie Cup and No. 6 Brown for the Content Cup … The victory over No. 1 Harvard was only the fourth time since the Compton Cup started in 1933 that Princeton has won consecutive races against Harvard (1933-36, 1956-57, 2015-16, 2023-24) … It was the first time in program history that the 1V and 2V went unbeaten in the regular season … 1V won silver at Eastern Sprints, helping the team to the Rowe Cup for the first time since 2016 … Paced the 1V to fourth in the IRA National Championship Grand Final, pushing the Tigers to second in the Ten Eyck standings, the team’s highest mark since 2016 ... Rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta, winning the Ladies' Plate crown.
2023: Coxed the 1V that won the Navy-Princeton Cup (No. 15 Navy), earned the Childs Cup at No. 14 Penn/No. 19 Columbia, secured the Compton Cup over No. 6 Harvard and corralled the Content Cup over No. 10 Brown … In the postseason, the 1V earned a silver medal at Eastern Sprints for the first time since 2016 and picked up a bronze medal at the IRAs for the first time since 2016.
2022: Was the coxswain at the 1V, 2V and 3V … Helped the 3V vs. Georgetown, Drexel, Temple and Navy … Coxed the 2V that was fifth at Easterns and sixth at IRA National Championships.
Before Princeton:
St. Joe’s Prep: Team won the Philadelphia City title three times and the Catholic League Championship twice … Boat also took home the Stotesbury Cup Regatta twice and earned crowns at the Youth and SRAA National Championships … First Honors every year … National Honor Society… National Society of High School Scholars.
Personal: Son of Monica and Brian Neill.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
Princeton Athletics 2021-22 Highlights
Monday, June 06
Spring 2022 PNC Student-Athlete Achiever Award Recipients
Tuesday, April 26
